It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
Betty SmithAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: December 15, 1896
- Died: January 17, 1972
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